Thursday, December 26, 2013

Sam Vaknin, Ph.D., is an
admitted psychopath who makes a tidy living through his site. His
book, “Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited,” is sold on
his site (samvak.tripod.com). Sam offers consultations and provides
a media kit.

The
behavioral strategy followed by the disordered is laid out in “The
Corporate Psychopath,” by the FBI on their site. This is outlined
as beginning
“by creating a mask, known as a psychopathic fiction, in the minds
of those targeted.” The
mask is the disguise the psychopath uses to operate.

Disordered individuals,
lacking empathy, work diligently to simulate emotions. They must
persuade their potential victims they are trust-worthy. Training
classes in these skills are given by other psychopaths.

Their numbers are large
enough, 1% according to experts at the University of Chicago, to make
it more than likely any normal person will encounter multiple
disordered individuals during their lives.

It is also large enough for
those who identify themselves as disordered to seek associations with
their kind. These associations founded, in self-interest, for
instance, share information and resources.

Psychopaths
of all kinds, are predators who routinely lie to get what they want.
The FBI site credits them with, “superficial
charm and grandiose sense of self make them likable on first meeting.
Their ability to impress others with entertaining and captivating
stories about their lives and accomplishments can result in instant
rapport.”

The Disordered come in all kinds, at all
levels of intelligence, race, gender, and income.

Resources
on the web include such sites as Psychic Vampire
(psychicvampire.org), or Tribes of Darkness. This site numbers the
community participating in their forum as 5000 and defines a psychic
Vampire as
“a person, Who by reason of a condition of their spirit, needs to
obtain vital energy from outside sources.”
The site makes no judgements on what is done, merely asking for
donations to off-set the cost of information.

The following instructions for stealing
energy from others from their Resources page.

“Focus
on a donor from across the room.. Reach out with your mind, envision
a long tendril extending from your subtle body to the donors.. Attach
your tendril so that it penetrates, if it does not the first
time...Try again.. Now envision your tendril is hollow, and suck in
the energy like a vortex , using your will....As you inhale, draw in
the energy.”

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Father Teo
is a former Catholic priest who started a ministry to Hispanics after
founding, and running, a high school in Bolivia in the 70s. Several
years ago he started another ministry, assisted by members of his
congregation. This ministry is a prayer outreach to psychopaths,
individuals who are characterized by lack of empathy, compassion and
conscience.

To date,
the group has managed to alleviate the lack of empathy and
conscience in one young woman after two years. Since experts in the
condition hold out no hope for change this is really quite amazing.

Psychopathy
was once thought to be a psychological condition. This is untrue.
According to neuroscience the issue centers in the amygdala, a
portion of the brain. It is not working correctly and so causing the
problem.

An article
in Scientific American by neuroscientists Kent A. Kiehl and Joshua W.
Buckholtz states, “They lie and manipulate yet feel no compunction
or regrets—in fact, they don’t feel particularly deeply about
anything at all.” The article sets the cost to us for just those
psychopaths who are engage in criminal behavior to be between 200 –
400 billion dollars in a year.

Psychopathy
was also believed to occur only in criminals. This has now changed.

The
projected cost of psychopathy shifts dramatically when the arena is
not just crime, but the larger economy. Clive R. Boddy, a British
academic propagated the theory the present financial crisis was
caused by “corporate psychopaths” at the helm of financial
institutions in a recent issue of Journal of Business Ethics citing
lack of “conscience, have few emotions and display an inability to
have any feelings, sympathy or empathy for other people.”

This
certainly would explain how Cadawalder, Wickersham & Taft, the
law firm who did the registration for the first securitized
derivative could have ignored what is now being recognized as a
blatant fraud. ARTICLE

How many
kinds of psychopaths are there? Have they always been with us? Think
charismatic, narcissistic, people who use lies and manipulation to
get what they want.

Father
Teo's group also works with individuals displaying these
characteristics who appear to suck the life energy out of others.
This raises the question of whether energy vampirism is actually a
psychic form of psychopathy.

Some have
asked if psychopaths and energy vampires are, in fact, the demons we
read about in the Bible since their behavior is strikingly similar
when described.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Leon said,
“Keep taxes low, providing the best services possible while
building jobs and business.” That is what government is supposed to
do.

Leon went
on to tell me aninterlocal
agreementis
a contract between government agencies that work to provide services
to the public, such as parks and bus systems. He used them while
serving three terms as mayor of a town in Texas and ask how these
worked for him during his tenure. Leon is a descendant of Erastus
Smith, who first cried, “Remember the Alamo!”

I called
him because I discovered that Ashtabula is outsourcing services to
other governmental entities, for instance Lake County, according to
Janice Switzer, in charge of Ashtabula's COMMUNITY SERVICES AND
PLANNING DEPARTMENT. Janice announced at a recent meeting, "I am
not a planner, I use Lake County to plan. I am an
administrator."

If Lake
County is planning and handling the work why does Ashtabula need an
administrator? Couldn't the Commissioners do that?

Leon said
these local agreements are a fine way to lower costs. What, I asked,
would you think if they did not lower costs? There was a pause and he
asked why, then, they were using them? Getting the most bang for the
buck makes it possible to do more that needs doing.

Keeping it
local provides the most jobs and best supports business.

Leon said
it makes perfect sense to use interlocal agreements to lower the cost
of services to better serve the people, this being what government is
supposed to do. Cooperating locally helps make this possible. This
also requires people skills, and patience.

When Leon
was mayor he helped establish a non profit, BARK, Bosque Animal
Rescue Kennels. They found ways to increase the number of cats and
dogs adopted into good homes with a facility planned to provide vet
services and recreation facilities used by the whole county. To see
the kitty or pup is to love them. Leon contacted Doris Day, who
provided pointers. BARK is now celebrating its tenth birthday.

While he
was mayor Leon brought together all the county towns to provide
better ambulance services and re-engineer the infrastructure for
drinking water used by folks locally, keeping the cost low. They
built a pipeline themselves. It is a very small county, but they got
a lot done while Leon was mayor of Clifton, Texas and editor of their
local paper.

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